This is a presentation delivered by Professor William Philpott at the RUSI World War I Conference 2014.

1. Coalition Warfare: The
Battlefield Dimension
The British Army on the Western
Front, 1914‐1918
RUSI – 17 July 2014

2. Preparatrion
The pre-war
military entente
Sir John French in Paris

3. 1914: First
Impressions
High CommandHigh Command

4. 1915: Teaching
and Learning
Haig and Joffre meet to plan the 1916 campaign

5. 1916: Fighting
Together
The SommeThe Somme
Offensive

6. 1917: Fighting
Separately
Arras and the
Chemin desChemin des
Dames, April 1917

7. 1918: A Mature
Coalition
The International
Post, Villers-
Bretonneux,Bretonneux,
June 1918
(AWM: E02537)

8. A Shared Victory

9. The Anglo-
French
Memorial,
Thiepval